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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) Germany.
(b) India.
(c) Poland.
(d) Pakistan.

2. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Walesa.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Vaclav Havel.
(d) Dubcek.

3. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) Two hours.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) An hour.

4. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They were told by the camp commandant.
(b) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.
(c) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(d) They saw him shot.

5. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) Dachau Memorial.
(b) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(c) Buchenwald Monument.
(d) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

2. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

3. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

4. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

(see the answer key)

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